Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia’s top prosecutor won’t seek the death penalty for a teenager charged with fatally shooting a Temple University officer. The decision Wednesday has angered the officer’s colleagues and family. District Attorney Larry Krasner has long been a vocal opponent of capital punishment, and Pennsylvania has a moratorium on the practice.
Continue ReadingWHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia police chief responsible for the hiring of a former Cleveland officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 has stepped down. WVVA-TV reports White Sulphur Springs Police Chief D.S. Teubert has returned to his former job as a patrolman. Mayor Kathy Glover says Teubert had recommended the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly elected British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has made his maiden appearance on the international stage with a strong signal of support for Ukraine and a pat on the back from President Joe Biden. After a full day of meetings Wednesday at the NATO summit in Washington, Starmer met Biden
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge said Wednesday he was leaning toward throwing out Rudy Giuliani ‘s bankruptcy case after lawyers for the cash-strapped former New York City mayor and his biggest creditors — two ex-Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against him — agreed this was the best
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says he will give time to the country’s political parties to build a “Republican” majority at the National Assembly before he can decide on a new prime minister, after no party won a majority in Sunday’s legislative elections. Macron’s comment came in a letter published by several French
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A leader of an MS-13 gang clique in New York pleaded guilty Wednesday to racketeering in a case involving eight murders, including the 2016 killings of two high school girls who were hacked and beaten as they strolled through their leafy, suburban neighborhood on Long Island. Alexi Saenz,
Continue ReadingSAN ANTONIO (AP) — Police say a burglary suspect was killed in an exchange of gunfire with SWAT team officers following a standoff at a house in San Antonio. San Antonio police said in a statement that 52-year-old Juan Antonio Hernandez died Tuesday evening. Police Chief William McManus told reporters that the SWAT team called
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco has been formally charged with sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl in the Dominican Republic. Prosecutors filed multiple charges against Franco six months after a judge ordered that he be investigated in connection with sexual and psychological abuse of the girl. Nairobi
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Republican officials in Montana are pressing the state Supreme Court to overturn a landmark climate ruling in a lawsuit brought by young environmentalists. Last year’s decision said regulators must consider global warming emissions when approving oil, gas and coal projects. But legal experts say it must be upheld by
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed a bill requiring proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration. It’s legislation Republicans have prioritized as an election-year talking point even as research shows noncitizens illegally registering and casting ballots in federal elections is exceptionally rare. Despite Wednesday’s House action, the bill is unlikely to advance
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Queen Camilla has made an appearance at Centre Court at Wimbledon. Camilla, the wife of King Charles III, took a seat in the Royal Box, where guests included actress Keira Knightley, actor Richard E. Grant and Formula 1 driver George Russell. Last year the queen and Kate, the Princess of Wales, had
Continue ReadingThe Russian prosecutor general’s office has declared The Moscow Times newspaper to be an “undesirable organization.” The designation means the newspaper popular with those in Russia’s expatriate community must stop any work in Russia. It also subjects any Russian who cooperates with the paper to up to five years in prison. It is a more
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — An aid group that rescues migrants in the Mediterranean says one of its missions has been interrupted by armed bandits. SOS Mediterranee filmed the incident Tuesday off Libya. According to the video, volunteers were helping transfer the 93 passengers from the migrant boat onto their rescue vessel when two rubber dinghies approached.
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — A new state license plate design refers to Pennsylvania’s critical role in establishing the United States’ independence from England and features the phrase “Let Freedom Ring.” The red, white, and blue plate design announced this week includes an image of Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell. The design already appears on eight signs that welcome
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — An Indiana man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison after pleading guilty to making a violent threat against a local election official in Michigan soon after the 2020 election. The Detroit News reports that a federal judge sentenced 38-year-old Andrew Nickels of Carmel, Indiana, on Tuesday for threatening to kill
Continue ReadingAP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two astronauts who should have been back on Earth weeks ago said Wednesday that they’re confident that Boeing’s space capsule can return them safely, despite a string of vexing breakdowns. NASA test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched aboard Boeing’s new Starliner capsule early last month,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Movie star and lifelong Democrat George Clooney added his voice to calls for Joe Biden to leave the presidential race on Wednesday, just weeks after headlining a fundraiser that brought in a record single-night haul for the president’s reelection campaign. Clooney said in a New York Times opinion piece that he loves Biden,
Continue ReadingThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is warning drivers about “cheap, substandard replacement air bag inflators” in used cars that can fail to prevent serious injuries or death in a vehicle wreck. The agency said Wednesday that three people have been killed and two suffered severe injuries in the past nine months due to substandard,
Continue ReadingASHTABULA, Ohio (AP) — The Coast Guard came to the rescue of five people who were clinging to a cooler in Lake Erie after their boat was swamped by a wave far off the Ohio coast, authorities said. The 22-foot boat was about 10 miles off the coast of Ashtabula on Saturday when it was
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The wife of an imprisoned Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate says that the Belarusian authorities are depriving her husband of medicine. The 61-year-old pro-democracy activist, Ales Bialiatski, is serving a 10-year prison sentence. His family says he suffers from a number of serious chronic illnesses that have worsened during
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